I want to live in a country with a Department of Education, not a Department of War.👍💙

We don’t have a lot of new information regarding the mass firing of the remaining Department of Education employees; it appears the Trump administration has used the government shutdown as an opportunity to finish destroying the department of ed. If there are no employees, it exists in name only.

nowhere is safe from moneyed reactionary efforts, especially when large churches partner with political orgs, increasingly common and likely to be more so as the Christian nationalist coalition attempts to make full use of their institutional capture of the government and courts.

Before the interviews, community members were able to give public comment w/abt 5 people questioning the process & content of the questions, calling out Shaw’s apparent ideological bias. One speaker, local parent and @ourschoolsusa co-founder Kristi Hirst’s comment is worth watching in full @ 13:33

What happens when a CA school board is captured by Christian nationalists? Look no further than Chino USD where Sonja Shaw and 4 flunkies rule over a student body of approx. 26,000 students (slightly bigger than Glendale USD). Very long thread follows…

In February, Linda McMahon claimed no cuts to Title I would be made; more lies from this administration. These cuts would devastate districts across the country. I encourage everyone to check how much Title I funding their district and site receive and do the math.Inform your community and call reps

Start an @ourschoolsusa.bsky.social chapter or other parent group in your community to demand Prager materials not be used as instructional resources. Have age-appropriate honest convos w/your kids. Seek out quality curricular materials from @zinnedproject.bsky.social and www.learningforjustice.org

Quality public education is the way we rid our county of fascism, and it’s exactly why the current administration is working so hard to destroy it.

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

It’s sometimes surprising what a small world the reactionary right is given their reach and influence but here’s one instructive example. This morning PragerU’s Jill Simonian posted excitedly abt a new OK program to require its teachers to pass a Prager created “America first” test.

Looking forward to this !

Just a reminder: our public schools had 7 BILLION DOLLARS taken from them by Trump and his administration last week. Money already approved and included in CURRENT BUDGETS. This includes money for before and after school programs - something MANY families rely on. #publiceducation #ourschoolsusa

So as long as your discrimination is justified by your religious beliefs it’s allowed. This is all over Project 2025.

Although Alito frames the remedy here as "notice and opt-out," the reality is that school districts cannot manage such a sweeping opt-out system. They are far more likely to simply pull books with LGBTQ characters off classroom shelves altogether rather than face a ruinous, high-profile lawsuit.

In her dissent from today's decision—Mahmoud v. Taylor—Justice Sotomayor says that the court's holding "threatens the very essence of public education," and that its "reverberations" will be felt "for generations." This is a very heartfelt and mournful dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Lindsay Burke, a Baptist woman, and Jay Green, both PhDs, published on the Heritage Foundation that low birthrates are not due to lack of social programs, but due to women getting educated. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY3aqAuM/

Lindsay Burke, the author of the Project 2025 education chapter, is now the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of Education. So tired of being proven right.

Hearing that the Big Horrible Bill is being voted on in the Senate this Wednesday. It’s time to make a lot of noise again. Disastrous cuts to education, national vouchers, selling our national park lands, cuts to health care - all are there. Call and talk about it all. #horriblebill

Education Secretary Linda McMahon refuses to say if teaching kids that Trump lost in 2020 is ‘illegal DEI’

At House hearing, Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) asks Education Secretary Linda McMahon: "Do you believe social studies standards that teach President Biden won the 2020 election is illegal 'DEI'?" McMahon doesn't directly respond Instead she answered: "We should teach accurately"

Even worse. She said she didn’t know what/who they are ( although I think she might have taken that route instead of the real answer ; that she thinks it is illegal DEI).

Pete Buttigieg on education & the separation of church and state: “We’re not just AGAINST forcing people to pay with their tax dollars for private schools they might not agree with, we are FOR using those dollars for excellent, first-rate public education.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Stop and celebrate this: extremist school board candidates in Texas lost BIG this week. Parents do not want book banning. They do not want vouchers. They do not want policies that target and bully kids. We are the majority.

Ready for corporal punishment to come back into k-12 classrooms? Trumps EO signed yesterday sets the stage for this. As a parent I want to know if I get to opt out of this if it goes against my beliefs.

This is the one that broke me, though. It's an EO "promoting the appropriate integration of AI into education," including a task force figuring out how to give grants to support "AI-based high-quality instructional resources." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This mom says yes!

Vouchers are the path to defunding public education.

Local Florida School Districts are reeling from Republican Voucher expansions or Family Empowerment Scholarships. Nearly 70% of Pinellas schools accepting vouchers are unaccredited, yet accredited schools like Miami Northwestern may face cuts to AP courses that help make college degrees affordable.

There is a long-term systematic effort to defund public education and strengthen, not lessen, class divides. All of these attacks on public education are directly linked to the ongoing war being waged against child labor protections. They’re attacking our schools for a reason. *RT to fix typo

Fantastic live posting of a Southern California school board meeting where Moms for Liberty and TPUSA members showed up to DEFEND racism. This is happening in board rooms across America. Being Anti LGBTQIA goes hand in hand with racism ( and sexism).

@ourschoolsusa.bsky.social has chapters throughout California and the USA. They were founded in Chino Valley, CA. Our Schools was instrumental in getting the Safety Act passed last year. (Again, full disclosure - I volunteer with them). www.ourschoolsusa.org

If you’re in LA - and want to help public schools - there are @ourschoolsusa.bsky.social chapters and GUSD for all in Glendale @gusdforall.bsky.social gusdparents.org

From K-12 to Harvard, education is not valued in the Trump Era. Only obedience is.

Checking in on Florida's New College, the right's demonstration project for its plan to remake American education www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...

Education is the foundation of good citizenship, just like Benjamin Franklin said A civil right and freedom to learn just like W.E.B. DuBois said Read the Mission of Public Education, then ask yourself WHY are Trump and Republicans at war with Public Education?

So some people are plainclothes ICE agents interrogating small children, other people are random sociopaths impersonating ICE agents but everyone is supposed to know the difference, surely this won’t get even worse

Across California, we’re fighting back against attacks on our students, educators, and communities launched by the Trump/Musk administration. Sacramento, RSVP at cta.org/ffssac to get the latest updates!

Across California, we’re fighting back against attacks on our students, educators, and communities launched by the Trump/Musk administration. SF Bay Area, RSVP at cta.org/ffssf to get the latest updates!

Across California, we’re fighting back against attacks on our students, educators, and communities launched by the Trump/Musk administration. Los Angeles, RSVP at cta.org/ffsla to get the latest updates!

Across California, we’re fighting back against attacks on our students, educators, and communities launched by the Trump/Musk administration. San Diego, RSVP at cta.org/ffssd to get the latest updates!

Today, California issued responses to letters from the U.S. Department of Education regarding compliance with Title VI and FERPA. These responses will be visible on the CDE’s “Responses to 2025 Federal Actions” web page, which will continue to be updated: www.cde.ca.gov/nr/fa/

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

SCOTUS ruled today that churches are not safe from ICE raids. Very concerned about what this will mean for our public schools. Kids should not be scared to go to school. These are kids. Kids.

Wondering how the department of education will monitor non-compliance with Trumps wishes after laying off almost half of their staff. What does compliance even mean? Every order is vague, and contains illegal components.

The Trump admin has made multiple threats of pulling federal funding of public schools, it’s a good time to point out that converting ALL federal education dollars into vouchers is central to the plans laid out in Project 2025. Vouchers defund public schools. The cuts are coming one way or another.

Love how New York is not complying in advance.

Public education changes lives — but right now, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going after your public schools. I asked people to share stories about public school teachers that made a difference in their lives. Today, I read some of those stories on the Senate floor.

NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court HALTS a district court order requiring the Education Department to pay out more than 100 grants to public schools and universities that the Trump administration canceled. Roberts and the three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...